Land & Water

Events

One Health’ Initiative - The Environmental Surveillance of Agricultural Water using WGS and its Impact on Food Safety" title="CBL Hosts the ‘One Water
31 May 2019

CBL’s ONE WATER ONE HEALTH addresses an integral concept of water as reflected in the proposed Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.  This includes access to safe, reliable and sustainable water (including irrigation water) and water used in food production and processing , adequate water management practices (including re-use), water efficiency and the protection of essential services by aquatic ecosystems, under the umbrella of integrated water resources management. CBL is hosting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) , who is actively engaged...

15 May 2019

The Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER19), ‘Stop soil erosion, Save our future’ will be held  from 15-17 May 2019, at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy. This science-policy meeting is co-organized by the UN FAO and its Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), together with the Science-Policy Interface (SPI) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture.

The objective of GSER 19 is to establish a common platform to present and discuss the latest information on the status...